America refuses to talk to N Korea over missile threat

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The United States today rejected a North Korean plea for direct talks about a potential long-range missile test.

John Bolton, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said in response to remarks by a senior North Korean diplomat that threats were not the way to seek dialogue.

“You don’t normally engage in conversations by threatening to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles,” he said. “And it’s not a way to produce a conversation because if you acquiesce in aberrant behavior you simply encourage the repetition of it, which we’re obviously not going to do.”